Re: AC_CHECK_HEADERS long list error

[David Thompson]

This is with autoconf 2.52.

David

Lars Hecking writes:
>  > AC_CHECK_HEADERS( file.h file1.h ... file6.h \
>  > file7.h file8.h ... file12.h \
>  > file13.h)
>  >
>  > However, the code produced by the macro doesn't copy the '\' so it
>  > sees the newline and obviously breaks. Is there anyway around this
>  > other than to write a bunch of AC_CHECK_HEADERS (thus expanding the
>  > configure code a bunch?)
>
>   Just leave out the '\'.

 Hhm, I just re-checked ...

 You didn't say which version of autoconf! The '\' are indeed required,
 and this works fine with autoconf 2.13. I have had such code in gnuplot's
 configure.in for ages.



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